Escondido, CA, USA
an orange diamond shape hovering in made air for a while swaying from side to side. then it just fades away without making a sound.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-05-09
- Where
- Escondido, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.119, -117.086 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-escondido-ca-2010-27abac
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- Escondido, CA shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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